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the pressure on president obama continued to mount this weekend, as environmentalists latched on to an oil spill in arkansas to rally against the pipeline and republicans portrayed the pipeline as a common-sense solution that would create jobs. delivering the gop's weekly address on saturday, nebraska republican lee terry renewed the push for keystone. >> the people in the congress have spoken. the experts have weighed in. now it's the time to build the keystone pipeline, no more delays, no more politics. >> now terry may not want to deal with the politics. when it comes to environmental issues, politics is the name of the game. last friday, in an effort to make the air we breathe a little cleaner, the espn ppa proposed rules to cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline by two-thirds. it would reduce ozone and other air pollution by 30% and benefit 100 million american who is live in areas with polluted air. the american lung association says the epa's proposal would be the equivalent of taking 33 million cars off the road in terms of its effect on pollution. according to the epa, t
the pressure on president obama continued to mount this weekend, as environmentalists latched on to an oil spill in arkansas to rally against the pipeline and republicans portrayed the pipeline as a common-sense solution that would create jobs. delivering the gop's weekly address on saturday, nebraska republican lee terry renewed the push for keystone. >> the people in the congress have spoken. the experts have weighed in. now it's the time to build the keystone pipeline, no more delays,...
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heartland ofthe america -- i have news for the political class in washington. while they are busy worrying about their own political future things are bad out here. nearly 8% unemployment rate doesn't even begin to capture how bad things are. even the dismal rates announced of one. % economic growth -- of 1 economic growth -- they are working more than last less.kings more fromfor job creators are being punished. how does punishing job creators create more jobs? upcosts nearly $100 to fuel your truck. it costs tens of thousands of dollars to send your child to college. the price of a case of diapers these costs have impacts on the american family budget. while middle-class americans are breaking their budget the democrat-controlled senate refuses to pass a budget. ago?any trillions in debt all in violation of article one section 9 of our u.s. constitution. no budget for four years? [applause] no budget for four years is not just bureaucratic bumbling. -- that is government refusing to declare what it intends to do with
heartland ofthe america -- i have news for the political class in washington. while they are busy worrying about their own political future things are bad out here. nearly 8% unemployment rate doesn't even begin to capture how bad things are. even the dismal rates announced of one. % economic growth -- of 1 economic growth -- they are working more than last less.kings more fromfor job creators are being punished. how does punishing job creators create more jobs? upcosts nearly $100 to fuel your...
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the odds were stacked against me so like president barack obama it is eager to harp for political purposes in the narrative he had been peddling four or five years the little people at the bottom of our society simply don't get a fair sheik in according to him and millet -- millionaires or billionaires' of the richest 1 percent have edged out everyone else for opportunities for success. america's economy has become a club for the privileged few and of us have brought the obama as government intervened heavily in the economy the pork in the middle-class will never prosper in in this paradigm i had no business getting out of the ghetto and the lease without receiving welfare check and this is because he does not just peddle the benefits of the welfare state he peddles the welfare state mentality that is even worse than the welfare state itself and absolves individuals of personal responsibility and consigns them to grievance and encourages our justifies their sense of entitlement. with the election of last november republicans have been hyperventilating how much more effectively obama in his
the odds were stacked against me so like president barack obama it is eager to harp for political purposes in the narrative he had been peddling four or five years the little people at the bottom of our society simply don't get a fair sheik in according to him and millet -- millionaires or billionaires' of the richest 1 percent have edged out everyone else for opportunities for success. america's economy has become a club for the privileged few and of us have brought the obama as government...
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the history of assumer and barack obama and durbin is always politics. president didn't fully embrace what the bipartisan group of senators said. why am i suspicious? every time he has an opportunity to exploit it, he does so politically. do you this agree with me, that republicans need to proceed with caution? >> absolutely. there are so many complicated parts to this. even if you had trust with all the partners, you would want to pay a lot of attention to detail. look, the president -- you touched on it earlier. there was an unnecessary threat out of the blue. i was reading the text to the speech, he was outlining what he was sort of proposing which was somewhat in agreement and out of the blue he says if you are unable to move in a timely fashion, i'm going to set up a bill on my proposal and insist that you vote it on. that is typical stuff we see from the white house that is completely unconstructive and undermines trust in the white house. >> sean: two reasons i would like to see a bill happen here. number one, nobody seems to be talking about it,
the history of assumer and barack obama and durbin is always politics. president didn't fully embrace what the bipartisan group of senators said. why am i suspicious? every time he has an opportunity to exploit it, he does so politically. do you this agree with me, that republicans need to proceed with caution? >> absolutely. there are so many complicated parts to this. even if you had trust with all the partners, you would want to pay a lot of attention to detail. look, the president --...
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i'm sorry, i mean glow. [ laughter ] yes, how all of it is to misrepresent your political opponents views and proposals. anything you would care to add to that. >> our free enterprise economy is the source of middle class prors expert but president obama -- prosperity, but president obama believes it's the cause of problem. i hope the president loses the on seftion raising taxes and instead tonight would have been a good time to save medicare. >> jon: instead of why didn't he go out there and say something about medicare. something -- what was that? >> i'm medicare i'm prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as those proposed by the bipartisan simpson bowles commission. >> jon: i see the problem, once again rather than responding responding to actual obama, republicans are stuck responding to the fictional image of obama they created. the smaim boilerplate republican talking points but just with a better backstory. >> more government isn't going to help you get ahead. it's going to hold you back. more governmen
i'm sorry, i mean glow. [ laughter ] yes, how all of it is to misrepresent your political opponents views and proposals. anything you would care to add to that. >> our free enterprise economy is the source of middle class prors expert but president obama -- prosperity, but president obama believes it's the cause of problem. i hope the president loses the on seftion raising taxes and instead tonight would have been a good time to save medicare. >> jon: instead of why didn't he go out...
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it may add up to nothing at all politically. mike emanuel has our report. >> president obama went to minneapolis hoping to build support for what he believes are common sense proposals to reduce gun violence. he chose minneapolis to spotlight steps it has taken. >> the city came together. we've launched a series of initiatives that have reduced the number of young people injured by ns by 40%. reporter: mr. obama asked the american people to take action. >> we do not have to agree on everything to agree that it is time to do something. the vast majority of americans, including a majority of gun owners, support requiring criminal background checks for anyone trying to purchase a gun. reporter: to the nra says it will turn into a registry of law-abiding people. >> it will never be universal. the criminals will not comply with it. they could care less. reporter: this super bowl ad, in part funded by michael bloomberg, goes after the nra for being for background checks. >> i have become convinced after fighting to get the records com
it may add up to nothing at all politically. mike emanuel has our report. >> president obama went to minneapolis hoping to build support for what he believes are common sense proposals to reduce gun violence. he chose minneapolis to spotlight steps it has taken. >> the city came together. we've launched a series of initiatives that have reduced the number of young people injured by ns by 40%. reporter: mr. obama asked the american people to take action. >> we do not have to...
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joining us the former senior adviser to president barack obama, david axelrod. former congressman and chairman of the national republican campaign committee, former virginia james davis, peggy noonan of the washington street journal. welcome all. we'll talk about two hours of show into one hour. david axelrod on immigration, a lot of republicans don't believe the president wants to sign immigration bill this year. they believe he wants the politics, he wants the political issue because it's been so successful for democrats. >> i understand their paranoia because it was a terribly difficult issue for them and continues to be. he wants this accomplishment. this is a legacy item for him. there is no doubt in my mind he wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform. >> tom davis, can republicans even start talking to hispanics on other issues if this issue isn't put behind them no matter how it turns 0 out? >> first of all, they'll get a vote. you may get like we did it in 2006, a house version and senate version. at that point everybody will have their talking poi
joining us the former senior adviser to president barack obama, david axelrod. former congressman and chairman of the national republican campaign committee, former virginia james davis, peggy noonan of the washington street journal. welcome all. we'll talk about two hours of show into one hour. david axelrod on immigration, a lot of republicans don't believe the president wants to sign immigration bill this year. they believe he wants the politics, he wants the political issue because it's...
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. >>> now to the state of the union, president obama outlined an aggressive domestic agenda and our political analyst is here. he covered a lot of ground and made a lot of propels. what was your take? >> frankly for the most part it's what we come to expect to be the high on political theater and often short on memorable lines. basically, state of the union speeches from presidents, they are laundry lists of what presidents hope to accomplish and this year the president list what had he's hoping to accomplish this year but since republicans are in control of the house most likely he won't be able to accomplish much. perhaps the most emotional part of the speech tonight, the most anticipated part of his speech came on the issue of gun control. the president talked about the shooting victims in new town connecticut and a young chicago girl who performed at the president's inauguration and recently shot just a mile from the president's house in chicago. >> idea's parents are in this chemobeer tonight with two dozen americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun vie lance. they deserve a vote.
. >>> now to the state of the union, president obama outlined an aggressive domestic agenda and our political analyst is here. he covered a lot of ground and made a lot of propels. what was your take? >> frankly for the most part it's what we come to expect to be the high on political theater and often short on memorable lines. basically, state of the union speeches from presidents, they are laundry lists of what presidents hope to accomplish and this year the president list what...
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also did her a great favor by insulating her from the politics of the last four years. joe biden, i think, is going to be in the center of a lot of the big political fights over the next year and going to see his approval ratings probably take a beating. of course, playing kyoto say this isn't about 2016. what a fantastic launch for hillary clinton. should she decide to run. i think one of the things we have seen over the last elections is that the person who has some strong connection with a base who's a candidate almost drafted by the base does better. mitt romney didn't have that. john mccain didn't have that. i hazard to say i don't think biden has that either. any of the democrats i talked to always say clinton, clinton, clinton. it's time for a woman. i think this will be hillary clinton's big decision to make and my goodness, joe biden certainly can't be happy about that but i think this sort of speculation about biden, at least keeps sort of interest in obama's presidency. >> right. >> makes it more relevant going forward. >> and let's be real here. i mean, as a
also did her a great favor by insulating her from the politics of the last four years. joe biden, i think, is going to be in the center of a lot of the big political fights over the next year and going to see his approval ratings probably take a beating. of course, playing kyoto say this isn't about 2016. what a fantastic launch for hillary clinton. should she decide to run. i think one of the things we have seen over the last elections is that the person who has some strong connection with a...
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let's talk about the politics. have the politics changed on immigration in 2007 when it last went down in flames? >> on the democratic side we'll see if president obama who helped kill that reform now wants to play a constructive role in this one. on the republican side, maybe this is one benefit of the election where there were a lot of people coming out afterwards with crazy lessons for the g.o.p.. the problem was really mitt romney. this is one area of reaching out to hispanic voters. >> not just hispanics but asian immigrants. >> all different ethnic groups where the political desire may match up with the public policy. julian simon used to talk about human beings are the greatest natural resource. what is our advantage over the competitors. in the obama years, it's tough but our population is still growing. >> paul: another big change, marco rubio, no question about his conservative credentials leading the fight on this at some political risk. >> yeah, you have to give him some credit for doing that. i think h
let's talk about the politics. have the politics changed on immigration in 2007 when it last went down in flames? >> on the democratic side we'll see if president obama who helped kill that reform now wants to play a constructive role in this one. on the republican side, maybe this is one benefit of the election where there were a lot of people coming out afterwards with crazy lessons for the g.o.p.. the problem was really mitt romney. this is one area of reaching out to hispanic voters....
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political opponent. >> dan, what's the larger political context here for these new irs rules? you would think there would be some political cost here for the administration to do this, given the uproar in the spring and summer. >> i think basically the way to understand this, paul, is it all goes back to the citizens united decision which allowed corporations -- >> by the supreme court? >> by the supreme court. the democrats are obsessed with citizens united. barack obama himself criticized the justices sitting in front of him at one of his state of the union speeches over it. they're afraid groups might give money to advocacy groups to do this kind of political outreach. they want the names of those corporations exposed so that they can then harass and intimidate them with campaigns saying we will boycott your product if you support these groups. they're afraid all this money is going to come in and tip the balance against their politics. so they're going to intimidate these people out of politics with irs rules and with disclosure. >> the democrats and the president in parti
political opponent. >> dan, what's the larger political context here for these new irs rules? you would think there would be some political cost here for the administration to do this, given the uproar in the spring and summer. >> i think basically the way to understand this, paul, is it all goes back to the citizens united decision which allowed corporations -- >> by the supreme court? >> by the supreme court. the democrats are obsessed with citizens united. barack...
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. >> in many ways this was obama pulling frankly a bill clinton, a politically shrewd move, all about the clintons and hillary ace political future. the joke is whether vice president joe biden has been peeled off the ceiling yet but on what may have been the more interesting obama interview published this weekend, the president talked gun control, the future of both parties and football with the "new republic" as they tried to relaunch. the president acknowledged getting gun control through congress will be tough and said "if you group up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were 10 and you spent the day whim and your uncle and that became part of i don't are family traditions, you can see why you would be protective of that." ask if he ever fired a gun, the president went as far to say up at camp david we do skeet shooting all the time. the president will meet with law enforcement officials across america. it's looking more and more like by the way, that a background check bill is the vehicle that is most likely to get through the senate. on friday oklahoma republican sena
. >> in many ways this was obama pulling frankly a bill clinton, a politically shrewd move, all about the clintons and hillary ace political future. the joke is whether vice president joe biden has been peeled off the ceiling yet but on what may have been the more interesting obama interview published this weekend, the president talked gun control, the future of both parties and football with the "new republic" as they tried to relaunch. the president acknowledged getting gun...
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>>host: peter berkowitz, who in your view has done a good job with your position of political moderation today? >>guest: this book grew out of a concern that very few people are doing i begin to think about this the late 2008 as candidate obama it was becoming clear canid it obama the would win the historic victory you kid here anc's social conservatives talking about traditional morality and talking with the discussed of limited cover big conservatives discussed and impatience with social conservatives and how healthy is this? in may concluded it was quite an unhealthy, and it progressive writers he in san tended house begin to declare conservatism is dead for 40 years at least. and i began to wonder what brings together social conservatism? was there a principal or a set of principles those are devoted to those principles of limitations? and i saw of the tea party of movement arrived and one of the things that was interesting about the tea party movement was it contained a disproportionate number of social conservatives but they were focused on the team government in then it in their f
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the bind that he now finds himself in. >> we've got a politics that's stuck. right now. and the reason it's stuck is because people spend more time thinking about the next election then they do thinking about the next generation. gwen: now, of course, with the president means by that is that he's having trouble getting enough people to agree with his world view. starting with one of the biggest achievements of his first term, affordable care act. what's probt there, amy? >> if he talked to even democrats, they ranged in concern to, you know, relatively concerned to absolutely terrified, that this is going to be a disaster. you heard senator max baucus, of course, say he worries this will be a train wreck. democratic senator from montana. they look back to 2010 and they say, the white house was terrible at messaging this. and you look even at how much money has been spent advertising the affordable care act, see man which covers political advertising, said $400 million has been spent on advertising on affordable care act. $400 million of it has been opposing th
the bind that he now finds himself in. >> we've got a politics that's stuck. right now. and the reason it's stuck is because people spend more time thinking about the next election then they do thinking about the next generation. gwen: now, of course, with the president means by that is that he's having trouble getting enough people to agree with his world view. starting with one of the biggest achievements of his first term, affordable care act. what's probt there, amy? >> if he...
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>> it's actually as totally revolutionized political communication. we saw it both in the success of the obama campaign in the fund raising arena and seen it in the ability of people to galvanize around a particular issue. that's what's so important about all of these things, the twitter and facebook. we use it extensively and it's a huge force. >> congressman yarmuth, thanks so much for taking the time. >> thank you, chris. >> as we watch gabby giffords continuing to come in. there is this level of emotion here. and really newtown took it to a level i don't think we've seen before. the parents have a piece in the "washington post," our country needs a new dialogue, one that doesn't follow the tired script of political squabbling. any improvement of our laws should not be decried as an attempt to take away rights. even those who lost the most are suggesting no such thing. >> do we need to see gabby giffords coming in and reminder of these 20 kids? >> apparently we do. there is a strong gun lobby and they oppose these things strongly. >> are they as st
>> it's actually as totally revolutionized political communication. we saw it both in the success of the obama campaign in the fund raising arena and seen it in the ability of people to galvanize around a particular issue. that's what's so important about all of these things, the twitter and facebook. we use it extensively and it's a huge force. >> congressman yarmuth, thanks so much for taking the time. >> thank you, chris. >> as we watch gabby giffords continuing to...
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the presidency of barack obama. david corn for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. and joy reid, an msnbc contributor. having lost in their plot to block the health care law by taking the federal government and the economy hostage, republicans have now decided to go home. they won't work with this president on anything because he had the nerve to beat them. politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including immigration reform. quote, prominent immigration supporters like marco rubio have also backed off any deal saying the obama administration has quote, undermined negotiations by not defunding his signature health care law. paul labrador of idaho says the president is trying to, quote, destroy the republican party and gop leaders would be crazy to enter into talks with him. involved in the pro-immigration movement said after obama poisoned the well, the chances for substantive reforms seem all but gone. let me go to david on this. david, this seems to be the new excuse for everything. the die dared to protect his baby and in
the presidency of barack obama. david corn for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. and joy reid, an msnbc contributor. having lost in their plot to block the health care law by taking the federal government and the economy hostage, republicans have now decided to go home. they won't work with this president on anything because he had the nerve to beat them. politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including immigration reform. quote, prominent...
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that gives them the political opening. i think that's an interesting fight within the party, because i think the balance has changed, has shifted on the question of intervention. >> you said in your notes -- >> not all the way. >> not all the way. do you think they're going to return to being a hawkish party? i think if obama doesn't attack iran, for example, they'll go ferociously -- >> the gop is squarely in the neoconservative camp with maybe a toe in the realist camp. they'll find out a way to drown out rand paul at least in the conversation in washington in halls of power. coming up, mitt romney spoke at cpac but not before being slammed for not being conservative enough. we knew that was coming. so what is the gop's 2012 lesson? # also. republican senator rob portman used to oppose gay marriage until his son told him he was gay. until a personal issue came on, a family issue, he didn't have the same position. now portman has had a change of heart that all politics is local and as many people come out in terms of orie
that gives them the political opening. i think that's an interesting fight within the party, because i think the balance has changed, has shifted on the question of intervention. >> you said in your notes -- >> not all the way. >> not all the way. do you think they're going to return to being a hawkish party? i think if obama doesn't attack iran, for example, they'll go ferociously -- >> the gop is squarely in the neoconservative camp with maybe a toe in the realist...
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this is coming up right now on the place for politics. >>> ha! back to "hardball." now to the big sideshow tonight. first, republicans have argued that the cancelation of those white house tours is an obama gimmick that has nothing to do with sequester. so this a.m., fox news weighed in with a solution. >> the federal government spending apparently $350 million for planned parenthood-style sex education programs in western states including montana, idaho, oregon, alaska, for sex education programs starting now in kindergarten. >> remember the sequester was all about, it's going to end everything, we're going to have to close the white house tours, going to have to close small airport towers and things like that. so they did that and a whole other list of thing, yet they're able to find $350 million for this program. >> you know how long that would keep the white house tours going? >> 20 years? >> 100 years. >> no way. >> 100 years the white house could be open for as long as us and our grandchildren would be around. >> was this really a zero-sum situation? do you re
this is coming up right now on the place for politics. >>> ha! back to "hardball." now to the big sideshow tonight. first, republicans have argued that the cancelation of those white house tours is an obama gimmick that has nothing to do with sequester. so this a.m., fox news weighed in with a solution. >> the federal government spending apparently $350 million for planned parenthood-style sex education programs in western states including montana, idaho, oregon,...
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of course, you may recall, as president obama was seated next to a podium, it was dr. carson who ripped into the president's health care program. joining us is steven hayes, senior writer at the weekly standard. i mean, given the doctor's background in can health care and given his earlier shot over the bow of obamacare, i would expect him, would you not, to address obamacare here, but, i mean, is that in vain? it's survived legal and judicial challenges. would i expect him to talk about it. it's sort of the obvious thing for him to speak about and he knows it firsthand as he made clear in his earlier speech. i think it's actually an important time for somebody like dr. carson to talk about it because there's a debate within the republican party, within the conservative movement more broadly exactly how much to continue talking about obamacare for the reasons that you suggest, gregg. i mean, you know, it's the law of the land, the republicans ran on repeal in 2012 and didn't win. on the other hand, my own view is, republicans and conservatives should be talking about o
of course, you may recall, as president obama was seated next to a podium, it was dr. carson who ripped into the president's health care program. joining us is steven hayes, senior writer at the weekly standard. i mean, given the doctor's background in can health care and given his earlier shot over the bow of obamacare, i would expect him, would you not, to address obamacare here, but, i mean, is that in vain? it's survived legal and judicial challenges. would i expect him to talk about it....
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is this really a problem for obama at all politically, that he has a problem with the jewish committee? >> no, it's nonsense. even mcgovern won two-thirds of the jewish vote in 1972. the jewish vote has been amongst the most stable in american politics, basically three-quarters for the democrats really since fdr, since al smith in 1928 and it's because americans use vote to the left on domestic issues. they don't primarily vote on israel and that's why these things don't change very much. i don't think this has to do with the jewish vote at all. i think it has to do with obama's views on national interest in the middle east. >> what about pollard, the spy. he's been in prison for a very long time. he wasn't spying on us, he was spying on arabs. he broke the law. he's a criminal. it seems if he makes a statement of apology, deep belief that he shouldn't have done it, we should let him out. what do you think? >> i think that jonathan pollard is culpable, guilty. the only question is, is the sentence proportionate to the crime? at this point i think it's now disproportionately severe. >>
is this really a problem for obama at all politically, that he has a problem with the jewish committee? >> no, it's nonsense. even mcgovern won two-thirds of the jewish vote in 1972. the jewish vote has been amongst the most stable in american politics, basically three-quarters for the democrats really since fdr, since al smith in 1928 and it's because americans use vote to the left on domestic issues. they don't primarily vote on israel and that's why these things don't change very much....
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decisions on obama's part to cover up everything because he was running on a national security platform, but i stand by my brother's statement which is, this should not be treated as a political football. this should be a fact-finding mission. are we equipped to deal with this kind of thing, moving forward? >> i would like to know what the reaction is to the critics of report?kering they spoke to the same witnesses. they did talk to them. >> they did not speak to the secretary of state until the hearing. we did not know that there was a state department memo from the acting assistant secretary of east affairs. the day after the attack said that there was a terror attack from an al qaeda affiliate. the state department acknowledges that in a memo. secretary he told the of state that night. the cia also spoke about it being a terror attacks but those paragraphs are removed. the issue is hillary clinton's answer, the difference between truth and falsehood, between integrity and intimidation. that is an important issue. i do not think there was an underlying crime but there was a political
decisions on obama's part to cover up everything because he was running on a national security platform, but i stand by my brother's statement which is, this should not be treated as a political football. this should be a fact-finding mission. are we equipped to deal with this kind of thing, moving forward? >> i would like to know what the reaction is to the critics of report?kering they spoke to the same witnesses. they did talk to them. >> they did not speak to the secretary of...
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he doesn't particularly like the political side of his job. he's not all that good at bringing people together. the leader we needed in this period. to do with ething our sluggish recovery. 50 who are you the biggest fan of? >> the president? yeah. >> in a way, it's an easy question. abraham lincoln. lincoln saved the union and same time, y at the which seemed like it would be impossible to do at the same time. was impossible. incoln is an impossible figure between his intellectual prowess, rhetoric, statesmanship, his achievement. extraordinary president. needed at that moment in this country. amazing he was there. george washington similarly was an indispensable man as a lot of people have called him an impressive figure. huge fan of ronald reagan. us out of a get moral slump. he helped to give us our when ence back at a time we really needed it and he helped in a concrete way to get growing and, of course, to end the cold war. i have to admire franklin domestic whose policies i disagreed with in a ways, he was an xtraordinary figure when we
he doesn't particularly like the political side of his job. he's not all that good at bringing people together. the leader we needed in this period. to do with ething our sluggish recovery. 50 who are you the biggest fan of? >> the president? yeah. >> in a way, it's an easy question. abraham lincoln. lincoln saved the union and same time, y at the which seemed like it would be impossible to do at the same time. was impossible. incoln is an impossible figure between his intellectual...
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and team obama. when the football coach says my quarterback is the best quarterback ever. each year. if you're in the mood displaying is, you sound exactly like is a van in a g guthrey. >> if you were a conservative you tended not to like the speech. if liberal you tend today like the speech. and the speech has been as predi predictable as the speech itself. aaron david miller, you know, there was no foreign policy this week, and he called mr. obama the extricater in chief, a praise i rather liked, but other than that, i really found the commentary westbound quite dreary about a quite uninspiring and effective speech. >> the point is most liberal like these things. there's nothing in this particularly liberal. and it's gotten to the point that if you're a liberal you have to like every idea that barack obama has. and since 1980, i don't understand, like, why are-- the economy is turning around now and he wants to talk about raising the minimum wage? i mean, it just isn't-- this is not an inspiring reaction to what's going on. >> jon: cal. >> i wrote in a column this week,
and team obama. when the football coach says my quarterback is the best quarterback ever. each year. if you're in the mood displaying is, you sound exactly like is a van in a g guthrey. >> if you were a conservative you tended not to like the speech. if liberal you tend today like the speech. and the speech has been as predi predictable as the speech itself. aaron david miller, you know, there was no foreign policy this week, and he called mr. obama the extricater in chief, a praise i...
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the obama scare next on "the five." >>> obama care goes into full effect in january. and the president needs your help selling it to political advocacy groups organizing for action taking votes on an official bumper sticker. obama care signed, sealed delivering. number two, obama care is working. and last but certainly not least, obama care, still a bfd. i'm going to go to greg. baby on board. baby is 26. i love it because you can be on your parents' health insurance until you are 26. when you go to the bumper sticker convention are you asking for trouble? >> that is how i vote. i will be behind somebody and if i see a simple statement i go that is who i am voting for. it is incredible how it influences my limited mind. i came up with a bumper sticker for obama care. here it is. i'll tell you why. because obama care is like a stink bomb in home room. when it lands everybody scatters. the only thing that stinks worse than obama care is alec baldwin's yoga pants. >> i am too embarrassed to say what it says. >> bend over. >> and the obama o slogan. >> another thing that
the obama scare next on "the five." >>> obama care goes into full effect in january. and the president needs your help selling it to political advocacy groups organizing for action taking votes on an official bumper sticker. obama care signed, sealed delivering. number two, obama care is working. and last but certainly not least, obama care, still a bfd. i'm going to go to greg. baby on board. baby is 26. i love it because you can be on your parents' health insurance until...
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q&a.er chance to see >> a he has been called " probably the most intellectual of the obama era." what does that mean? >> i wonder by whom. >> probably by jonathan chait. >> i guess it means an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events to deeper currents, theoretical or. occurrence. there are narrow definitions. an intellectual is a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. in decades, there is is no such thing as a conservative intellectual. thatu take a broader view an intellectual tries to connect theory and practice, then maybe that is right. that is part of what my work trusted do very >> -- to do -- what my work tries to do. i am the editor of national affairs, quarterly journal of essays on public policy and political thought. i am also a fellow at a think tank here in washington. >> what you do? >> editing the magazine means editing the magazine. we run long essays by experts for the most part, academics, intellectuals, you might taken, about complicated public questions. some of them are very tactical. -- very practica
q&a.er chance to see >> a he has been called " probably the most intellectual of the obama era." what does that mean? >> i wonder by whom. >> probably by jonathan chait. >> i guess it means an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events to deeper currents, theoretical or. occurrence. there are narrow definitions. an intellectual is a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. in decades, there is is no such...
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the white house says the golf game didn't have a political agenda, be you the president is trying anything he can to bring the two parties together. by the way, senator chambliss got a hole in one, that means drinks are on him. >> for everybody. i want to go back to this exporting of liquid natural gas, which is a plus by the president. >> a huge plus. >> between our energy independence in the next ten years, which means we won't have to import and we actually will be selling stuff, our trade deficit will evaporate. >> a little less than half of our trade deficit comes from energy alone. you won't talk about the knockdown effects in terms of national security and all the rest of it. so this is a big deal. there is no two ways about it. the president, i'm so glad he's moving in this way, to add this to immigration, there is a chance the u.s. could grow out of its fiscal problems, more than any other country in the g-7. >> let me connect the dot, exporting liquid natural gas, not importing oil any more. okay. trade deficit going down, dollar going up. america becomes the place to incest. it'
the white house says the golf game didn't have a political agenda, be you the president is trying anything he can to bring the two parties together. by the way, senator chambliss got a hole in one, that means drinks are on him. >> for everybody. i want to go back to this exporting of liquid natural gas, which is a plus by the president. >> a huge plus. >> between our energy independence in the next ten years, which means we won't have to import and we actually will be selling...
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